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  • mercia
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    • Nov 2010
    • 8920

    brilliant NB - that was quick

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    • Norfolk Born

      Well, I checked out 'Sharpe TV series theme music' and up popped Dominic Muldowney - who, I discover, was born in Southampton. The Pilgrim fathers sailed from Southampton, putting in at Plymouth (they'd run out of, or forgotten, something or other). Googling 'Earl of Southampton' proved interesting but inconclusive.

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      • mercia
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        • Nov 2010
        • 8920

        only Muldowney is correct there, all elements musical

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        • antongould
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          • Nov 2010
          • 8833

          Is the favourite pilgrim John Noble?

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          • mercia
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            • Nov 2010
            • 8920

            very good AG, I was about to offer a clue
            John Noble born Southampton, RVW's favoured Pilgrim in The Pilgrim's Progress

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            • mercia
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              • Nov 2010
              • 8920

              for the last part, I wonder who teaches at Southampton University?

              Unknown Ground (for baritone & piano trio) by ......... ?
              Last edited by mercia; 04-12-11, 09:49.

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              • Norfolk Born

                Michael Finnissy - Unknown Ground

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                • mercia
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 8920

                  well done NB, sorry to drag it out

                  Test us with a T

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                  • Norfolk Born

                    No need to apologize - it was an excellent question!
                    In which 'T' does Somervell come 2nd, Elgar 4th, Stanford 5th and Parry 10th?

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                    • mercia
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                      • Nov 2010
                      • 8920

                      an 80th birthday Tribute ?

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                      • Norfolk Born

                        I think he's got it ......

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                        • mercia
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                          • Nov 2010
                          • 8920

                          ah, well I haven't found much information, but as an 80th birthday tribute to the old queen in 1899, 13 composers were asked to write part-songs, four of which she heard sung by massed choirs by hanging out of a window at Windsor Castle. The CD I've found which contains them all doesn't have them in that order but perhaps they were published together in that order ???

                          Somervell - With still increasing blessings
                          Elgar - To her beneath whose steadfast star
                          Parry - Who can tell with greatness
                          Stanford - Out in the windy west

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                          • Norfolk Born

                            ...the collective title given to these 13 pieces being...?

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                            • mercia
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                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8920

                              oh bother, the original page I was looking at said they were like a Victorian version of The Triumphs of Oriana, now I find that's exactly what they were called

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                              • Norfolk Born


                                The Triumph of Orania - and now of mercia
                                So...we're (and it's ) up to 'U'

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